If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.