What you see is what you see.

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

What you see is what you see.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

Anyone who isnt confused really doesnt understand the situation.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

I've felt ugly and insecure.

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

Patience has never been my strong suit.

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.

I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.

Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.