It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.