It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of 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.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.