One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

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.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.''But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.