Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.