To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something to secure it in this world we must do something.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly to find your real job and do it.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Real learning begins outside the classroom.

Health food makes me sick.

One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.