I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

What you see is what you see.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

You see what you know!

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

The aim of art is to create space.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

Life is too big for small dreams.

They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.