Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.