Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

Science grows like a weed every year.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I am not strong on perfection.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.