Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.

Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated.

One day you'll be like me" is a waste to say. Instead you should "Someday you'll be better than me.

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

All conflict comes from attachment.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.