Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
The craziest thing I've probably done during a show is the balcony dive - it was pretty scary. I was like, 'This could result in an injury of mine,' but somehow I survived.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
