Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.