A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.