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.

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.

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.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?

For you not to look scandalous, act educated.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.

You'll never succeed with people who devalue you!

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.