There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes his hands his attitude. This is the moment to record.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music or their attitude about their own lives or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them otherwise you don't get through.

I've sort of escaped my background as people often do through art and culture.

I want to serve chess through games books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing back to a place of innocence.

As in nature as in art so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their luster.

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York ' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end where no one can go any further.

The bad gains respect through imitation the good loses it especially in art.

Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

It is through art and through art only that we can realise our perfection.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

If you do not breathe through writing if you do not cry out in writing or sing in writing then don't write because our culture has no use for it.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

Anger becomes limiting restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there look at that too. But after a while you have to look at something else.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.