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.

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.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

When we give our heartbreak to God, he fashions it into a softer and even more loving heart."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

I want my army to be an army of the living God.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.