We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

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

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.

Bitterness is captivity.

The greater the time of grief or stress the greater reason we have to be in alignment with peace.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.