I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Promise me you'll stay and I promise to haunt you in the most heavenly way - with dark devotion and deep emotion.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

If you don't understand my silence, then you won't understand my words.

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.