It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways.

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

Sometimes it helps to swim to the other side of our understanding just to make sure all is well

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.