... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

An artist is a person first.

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.