The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

Time is not important, but art is.

If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.