It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.
You have to love the office and you have to love our country and what is going on right now.
. . . In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.
We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.