Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

You have to be alive in order to live.

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.

I love any comedic zombie movies.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

I'm a late developer.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.