Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

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.

Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.

We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors

Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.