I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Christ lives and will cleanse, heal, guide, protect and strengthen us.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.