For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul for literary fame, since the soul is a writer's inner voice...

Every living object has to change every moment just to live.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

I don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.