I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing….

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of….

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to….

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist..

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and….

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas..

The asp doth on his feeder feed..

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it..

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life..

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own..

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey..

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; ….

"Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous... I don't doubt that instant co….

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite..

The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementar….

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the t….

Spreading an idea is hard work..

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story..

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else..

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150….

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea..