Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

He's not pointing to anybody, he's showing off how high he can count!

Rene looked at Grendel. “What in the world is that?” “That’s our mutant attack poodle,” I told her. “Is he chewing on a gun?

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.