Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.