There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.

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.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have trouble with me!

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I've never lost track of what I stand for and what I believe in. I'm proud of that.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.