In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren’t true than the things that never came true because you didn’t believe.
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.
When it seems that something can’t be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
A watched child never learns.
One day you just say “To heck with it,” and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.
It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child’s mind.
The trouble with ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’ is that there’s always more everything than places.
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.