Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Each moment of love is eternal.Each moment of life is essential.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.

I cannot be contained because I am the container.

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.