Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book If art doesn't make us better then what on earth is it for.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else even if it only be the art of raising lentils receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.