The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

Time' is actually the best gift, given to us by our Creator.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Goat screaming videos are hilarious.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Times don't change. Men do.

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.