Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

All art is made from anger.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Resources follow vision.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime.

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.