I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

Opportunities are everywhere.

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

I used to work the graveyard shift.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.