The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

But in proverbe I have herde say,That who that wel his werk beginneth,The rather a good end he winneth.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.