Progress means simplifying, not complicating

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.

Money can't buy no blessins.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Patch: "It's hard to concentrate on answers with you looking like that.

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

Ability is noting without opportunity.

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.