An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life.

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.