It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Desires stay unaware of man’s fragile existence authored by scarcity

You make me greedy for you. I just can't get enough. I wish you would just accept it for what it is and trust me.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.