Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

Each of us has our destination and target, but when we ignore it, we are used for purposes other than for what we were actually intended

LOGAN: I think you spend too much time believing what other people see, rather than what you think.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.