George Bernard Shaw

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

In the field of art, to be able to have lunch with Kirk Varnedoe is thrilling. I met him at Si and Victoria Newhouse’s dinner one night. Barnett Newman’s widow was there. That’s the part of me that’s a fan. Like when I was a kid and went to the Brooklyn Paramount. Well, my interest has expanded, and it’s not just rock-and-roll.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.

Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.