“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”

“Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.”

“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.”

“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.”

“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”

“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

“Art is science made clear.”

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”