What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

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.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

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.

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

Fire can destroy everything, but it is also the most important creative force.

Let's go to the food court and try some food.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.