In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

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.

Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.