Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.