Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

The present eye praises the present object.