Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

There is beauty in thinking independently.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves, I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets. That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions