The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not.

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

[Matt] Lindland looks just like 'Woogie' from 'There's Something About Mary', how am I possibly supposed to take this guy seriously?

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.