Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

It was Public Art defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art but just as a person.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

When science art literature and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book If art doesn't make us better then what on earth is it for.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists and I think people listen to music for different reasons and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music and some of it is things that might affect a person's day if not their life or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things a poet in words a musician by sounds.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.

I'm not angry I'm not an angry person but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am and sometimes it works quite well.

The anger of a person who is strong can always bide its time.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me that was fascinating.

I'm an angry person angrier than most people would imagine I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.