The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

I say that good painters imitated nature

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

The longer it takes to explain value, the more people think you don't have any.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.