Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)

Messages focused on miracles has eliminated stewardship messages.

The rottenness comes from within.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'