When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

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.

One does not seek love, ' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own

Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away.

The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium

Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

If you do your job right, no one realizes you did your job, and that's a good thing. You strive for that.