I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.