What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self transformation.

How long should you try? Until.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Lifes too precious so have fun treasure the memories say what you want do what you want have no regrets and remember everything happens for a reason.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

There's no absolutes in life, only vodka.

San Anita is a beautiful track. It's not too far from my house in L.A., and it's a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run.

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

I get up extremely early in the morning.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.