When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

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.

There is no problem if the other person pushes us but we have to make sure that we do not push the other person. Only then will we obtain the love of the other person!

... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

In the company of ignorance, be silent…and run!

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

If I leave Chelsea, I would be unprofessional ,just because I am not playing does not mean that I don't love Chelsea. I am not leaving.

Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.

To obey God is better than sacrifice.

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!