I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.

I love Prince, thought he was super dope.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.