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?

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?

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Everything is a possibility. I believe we're put on this earth to think big and dream big.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.