By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years.

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

Change your direction and you will change your destiny

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.