Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular..

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food..

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through..

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the….

If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to tr….

Invest time, don't spend it..

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so t….

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adher….

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds….

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange….

... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or ….

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of a….

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear..

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably.".

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me..

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this..

I don't come from money..

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing..

Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create r….

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps thi….

You’re meant for me, and I will have you..