You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.