What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder, Peter? You tell me. I like Boulder. We just don't live that way.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

Your best friend is the one who tells you the most truth.