The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

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

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

There is always a next time

You cannot break any of God's laws, you can only break yourself.

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.