Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.