There's No Geist Like The Zeitgeist.

If You Want To Be Successful In The Gym, In The Classroom, In College Or When You Get Out And Go Into The World Of Work, That Is Going To Be Determined By How Hard You Are Willing To Work.

No Art Goes Unmediated By Other Art.

Popular In Our Time, Unpopular In His. So Runs The Stereotype Of Rejected Genius.

The Basic Project Of Art Is Always To Make The World Whole And Comprehensible, To Restore It To Us In All Its Glory And Its Occasional Nastiness, Not Through Argument But Through Feeling, And Then To Close The Gap Between You And Everything That Is Not You, And In This Way Pass From Feeling To Meaning. It's Not Something That Committees Can Do. It's Not A Task Achieved By Groups Or By Movements. It's Done By Individuals, Each Person Mediating In Some Way Between A Sense Of History And An Experience Of The World.

It Was Van Gogh's Madness That Prevented Him From Working; The Paintings Themselves Are Ineffably Sane, If Sanity Is To Be Defined In Terms Of Exact Judgment Of Ends And Means And The Power Of Visual Analysis.