I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft.

What if you'd live every day as if you were our society's future and hope?

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.