That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

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?

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

my life is just waiting for you to get started.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Amazing Love! how can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.