Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

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.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.