In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

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.

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.

I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.