The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.
Art is the highest form of hope.
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?
I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.