When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Sustainability has become an ornament.