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

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.

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.

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

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.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Pleasure is the most real good in this life.

Happy endings are still endings.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.