I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.