Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

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 you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.