Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.
It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.
Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.
The most thankful person is the most fully human.
All that God is, will supply your need.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
