The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

She had gone through the veil and returned to Earth. But the veil only opens one way.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.