Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.

Dedicate your life to solitude and mortify your members which are upon the earth.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

Hope comes in many forms.

All of my past challenges have helped me become who I am today.

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.