The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

And there, in the midst of blinding orange, yellow, and white flames, our forever begins.

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!

I don't think I have any bad features.