In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I Jah is in I. I make what is good better and what is better best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship and it is the best ending for one.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship and it is far the best ending for one.

Beauty is about perception not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up or dress yourself or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which more than anything else will affect its successful outcome.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s) I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

I think of art at its most significant as a DEW line a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

At the beginning of the 20th century the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music which was then considered as the noblest art.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.