It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

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.

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

Insanity can inhibit a person from thinking consciously about his or her thoughts and actions that can result him or her to perform dangerous acts without realizing at all.

The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's the end of the world.

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day.