I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular….

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever..

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody ….

The job of art is to chase ugliness away..

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs ….

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks you….

From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before a….

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get t….

I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Stead….

I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with someth….

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forw….

Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock..

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form..

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty..

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is..

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art..

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic..

To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'progr….

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpiece….

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promoti….

I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing ….