Art is not the spiritual side of business.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.

It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster.

Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.