Without intent all painting is meaningless.

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.