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.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

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

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.

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

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.

We are divine. God is lives within us.

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

All it takes is a single moment.

The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

It is really important (to win). It's always like, "You should win; you should win," If I win, I've proven (it) to them... It'd be pretty cool.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.