Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

He doesn’t need a donkey, ” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.

Fear of facing the grasp of death changes one's outlook on every little thing.

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

The greater the giving, the greater the living.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.