If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.