It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

They sky is never falling...thing will work out, they ALWAYS work out. Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.