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 teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

Any good apology has 3 parts: First, I’m sorry. Second, It’s my fault. Third, What can I do to make it right? Most people forget the third part.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. Its okay if there are flaws in the process it makes it more interesting.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

I am a man in a hurry.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

It was impossible to get a conversation going everybody was talking too much.

Serendipity favors the believing.