I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

The sun pours out like wine.

They're two types of people; those who are busy being about it and those who talk about it.

I write from my stomach.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.