When you don't like something the words come more readily.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.