Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)