The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

I don't think you can represent the country properly if you're not a healthy person.

If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.

Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.

The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.