Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

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.

If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.

We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.