The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

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.

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.

Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.

That's what gets converts these days, " Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.