You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100, 000 to $200, 000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.