When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

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.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.