Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

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.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!

Everybody in my family are doctors.

I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!