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

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.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

One Decision Makes All the Difference

Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.