You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.

My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

I was aborted and did not die.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

The breach of custom Is breach of all.