Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Master water first and then paint.
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.
Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.
Read much, but not many works.
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger. , Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte. ]