The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.

A society without humour is like a tree without roots.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

The universe does not work by our rules

I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.