A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.

At that moment, the creature's back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.

What love it to me...is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.