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 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.

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.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty.

We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.

History is absolutely my thing.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.