Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

The most basic boundary-setting word is “no.” It lets others know that we exist apart from them and that we are in control of ourselves.

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

You can't be creative when you're completely happy.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?