“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual ar...”

“I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There sho...”

“Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.”

“A woman simply is, but a man must become.”

“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things...”

“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.”

“Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Ci...”

“Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to...”

“Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of Californ...”

“With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of b...”

“Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.”

“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillme...”