Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

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

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.

So-called intellectuals have ego-power

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

Every morning brings thousands of opportunities

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.