“Perception precedes reality.”

You’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

If you don’t think about it, it’s right.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.

You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to realize what is going on and discover that the perceptions in Washington aren’t necessarily accurate.

Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they’re perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I’m not into all that.

Your life will take on a whole new reality the second you make the decision to shift away from all the unnecessary and cluttering things that once narrowed your perception of this world.