Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

I think I've proved that I'm not to be trusted, " he said."Then why do I feel safer now that I have in my entire life?""Because you're just as screwed up as me.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.