I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.