Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

A man lives by believing something

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

I'll take care of this. All you had to do was ask.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.