In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

Morality is not respectability.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'