Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

When anything goes, everything goes.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.