I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Silence is so accurate.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

One man's nonsense is another man's sense.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of Gods church.

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

Blues is easy to play but hard to feel.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell