Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

The subject comes first, the medium second.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra) Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)