Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

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.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

We have all another or different Life and Free time.Jan Jansen

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

Your desire is your prayer.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.