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.

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.

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

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.

Be an example of small acts of kindness

Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

A new poll found that 43 percent of Americans think President Obama is doing a good job at handling the BP oil spill. Of course, the same poll found that 43 percent of Americans hate pelicans.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.