I had my trousers on at all times.
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.
Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland. You think it's too cold to have a volcano there.
Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else. ' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction. . . Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?