An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
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.
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.
There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"
