I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

You don't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.