I have three phobias. . . : I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative. . . or they are crazy.
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear. . . also very suggestive. . . which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.
You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.