Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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.

Truly, there is magic in fairy

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

I have lived a great life. I am very happy.