The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

God ever arithmetizes.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.