Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.

The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.