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?

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?

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

Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.

Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

you can accomplish more than you think you can. most of your limitations are in your mind.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.