Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.The same applies when you are stupid.

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.