In honor of his life, here are 15 of his most thought-provoking quotes about creativity and life.
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me.
Thats why I love coffee shops and public places I mean, theyre all out there.
Alan Light / The Art of Life
I love child things because theres so much mystery when youre a child.
When youre a child, something as simple as a tree doesnt make sense.
I learned that just beneath the surface theres another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper.
I knew it as a kid, but I couldnt find the proof.
It was just a kind of feeling.
There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another forcea wild pain and decayalso accompanies everything.
Im lost in a transition.
The old is dead, and I dont know what the new is.
Its somewhat unsettling, but its a hopeful thing in a way.
Ive been here before, lots of times.
I dont know why people expect art to make sense.
They accept the fact that life doesnt make sense.
.a person needs new experiences.
They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow.
Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.
The sleeper must awaken.
Forget being the best of anything.
And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff.
Then youre having a great time in the doing and thats what its all about.
If you dont enjoy the doing, then do something else.
In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business everything.
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.
I think it is a long, long, way off.
Its like a strange carnival: its a lot of fun, but its a lot of pain.
I wouldnt know what to do with color.
Color to me is too real.
It doesnt allow too much of a dream.
The more you throw black into a color, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth.
And you start seeing what youre afraid of.
You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
We all have at least two sides.
The world we live in is a world of opposites.
And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things.
Ive always liked both sides.
to get to appreciate one you have to know the other.
