I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.