The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

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?

I know there is only oneGovernorOfDeities.

Calm yourself and you calm your storm.

Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.