A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to..

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence..

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possib….

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive..

Listen to presences inside poems..

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?.

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way..

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American..

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites peo….

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The fi….

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and m….

There's nothing there — get rid of that!.

i like james patterson.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the produc….

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them..

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by repro….

What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of ar….

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing.