Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

So, change lanes. Get your stride back. Don't stay on a road that can only lead you to further devastation

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.