I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.