Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

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.

Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

When everything else falls down around us, just knowing that there's another person who will miss us when we're gone is enough to see us through our darkest moments.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.