Live to paint, don't paint to live.

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.

Faith in God gives us joy. It is a certainty of His glorious blessings.

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Doing some late-night home improvements, my man? (...) For what it's worth, I never had any use for that froufrou French shit, either." - Tegan

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.

We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

Random violence is incredibly infectious