If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Time travel is complicated, or so we think, since we have not yet managed to actually figure out how to do it.

Promise me you won’t sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage.

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.

Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.