Art and accident are one.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness. They purchased that greatness but only through the currency of time.

The expression of gratitude for whatever blessing you receive from God here on earth can only be in Joy

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear