Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

- J. Carter Brown

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

- J. Carter Brown

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it …

- J. Carter Brown

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

- J. Carter Brown

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that …

- J. Carter Brown

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Arc…

- J. Carter Brown

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

- J. Carter Brown

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

- J. Carter Brown