I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.

We can learn from everybody.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

The worst decision is indecision.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.