The subject comes first, the medium second.

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

Not all developing countries are the same.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.

It was another dark and windy night. Like so many others.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.