Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

Peace in the world depends on our relating to each other with compassion.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.