I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

Consuming is an endless treadmill.

Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.

The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.