I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.

I think leadership is not something you learn it's something you discover.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

You are no better than you should be.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.