“There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.”

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”

“People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.”

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”

“For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.”

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”

“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”

“Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.”

“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”

“I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.”

“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”

“I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.”

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”