Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

I want to start where language ends.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Let me kiss you and take your breath away, we'll worry about resuscitating you later.

In Ruin City, in the rain, the sound of melancholy is a buzzing maelstrom of quiet desperation. The shatter has been so great, there is no sound left to despair.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.