I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Have Fun, Be Safe, and Always Have FAITH

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.