We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

People don't hurt what they love.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the Declaration of Independence.

I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.