What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of ‘I am Chandubhai’].

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.

Freedom is our birthright.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.