Each brushstroke is a decision.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

People tend to think they know you when u come into their tv's every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything u here.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

It does matter not if the road ends; find another road!

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.