Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Don’t discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It’s the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.