Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.