Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.

I love you...", I said to myself and believed it. Finally.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing.

You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.

When I was growing up, they had just found radio.

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.