The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.