Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.