When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.