I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library.

Everybody hurts, sometimes.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.