If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Art can only be taught by artists.

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

I love this young people's music.

We are all descended from monsters.