The more an artist works the more there is to do.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

You love tests?""Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!