Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.