Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

Being on Twitter is like having a fern.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.