There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.