Art is not 'about.' Art 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.

There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

To learn anything fast and effectively, you have to see it, hear it and feel it.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.