At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
We've had too many World AIDS Days.
I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.
. . . every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
I don't support violence, period.