I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

I'm concerned about myself, but I'm less concerned about 'only myself'.

I loved you as a boy and fell in love with you as a man. You’re in here so deep that there is no you, no me. Only us.

Love hath no pride.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.