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.

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.

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.

When anything goes, everything goes.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

Our image is here and will for ever stay, and there is comfort in knowing that the memory of our lives will always be there, traveling among the stars.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.