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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Live now, live today - don't be bound by rules, live your own dream.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.