Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

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.

You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I hate, " Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

It's an either/or world now.

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.