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

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.

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

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.

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.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Lead a meaningful life. We are here for a purpose. To make this world a beautiful place.

There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail, ' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.