It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Where sanity is there God is.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Easy lives make boring people and things have definitely not been easy.