The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

That one person you are is you...its hurts but try love maybe it will get you through

Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories.

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

If we could manage any sort of trust again... Well. That would make me happier than you can imagine

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?