Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

Perfection of this human life happens when we take the responsibility to be and act as authentic Leaders in every life situation.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

You can't start at the top.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.