The idea is more important than the object.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.