It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?” I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes. “Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.