If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I think he is the funniest guy I ve ever known He is also maybe the most insecure person I ve ever known on rival Jay Leno

In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much more than I know.

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of Photoshop.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion. Every act of perception is art.So everything that perceives is an artist.