Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.

This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.

It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.