The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

All art is made from anger.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he’s rife and never get stuck to another man’s pfife.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

I've never voted, no.

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

I grew up with all kinds of people.