A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.

Turkey's a valued ally, important ally for NATO, not the least because of its strategic geographic location, bordering Syria and Iraq and close to Russia and the Black Sea.

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.

We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.