The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

IF SOMEONE KEEPS DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOINGTHEY WILL GET BETTER AT IT, BUT.... THEY STILL WON'T BE BETTER THEN YOU!KEEP PUSHING!

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

I threw tantrums, I acted stubborn, I was a pain sometimes, but I was still loved. In fact, I was their perfect even in my imperfection.

Good enough never is

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.