We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.

We can see the beauty of life, with positive focus.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.

sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying no. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

No amount of hatred can prevent an enemy from being right sometimes.