Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

...books were better than travel.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

If you have time to worry, you have time to make du'a.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.