Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently.

He who limps still walks.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.