The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

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.

Never give up.Never give up on your hopes.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your visions.

Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.