Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

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.

Those who have little in the way of character do all they can to blend into crowds, as those with Integrity stand alone in Success

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

I did Google myself recentle - without lubricant. I don't recommend it.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

"What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.