New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.

Live your life as a missions trip.