Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understandi….

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone..

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else..

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, th….

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and enco….

I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad..

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels..

No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to….

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue..

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me ….

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generati….

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

I take things too seriously..

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it..

If I was feeling angry, I had to investigate not just who or what I was angry at, but why. And then I had to do the hard part and ask myself: Are you….

I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual ur….

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish..

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the ….

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum..

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher o….