Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

There is music in my heart. There is art in my heart and there is majesty in my heart, because there is love in my heart!

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.