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

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

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.

When anything goes, everything goes.

Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.

If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

If I gave America any kind of hope or any kind of inspiration, I really want to say thank you for allowing me to continue doing that week after week.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The last time I used? What do you mean? I used my toaster this morning.

I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.