Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates 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.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

Another day gone and no jokes.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.