Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

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?

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

Make the right choicesFor the right reasonsand the right things will happen.

People who achieve the greatest success are the people who have the most fun getting there.

This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.