My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

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.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.