The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

God not only gives His creatures being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being.

want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray

God is a rich and bountiful Father and He does not forget His children nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

To lead people, walk behind them.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.