My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.

Science clears the fields on which technology can build.