Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

Start a compassion movement in your community by being a living example of kindness.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.