Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.