"Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s."

"High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces."

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

"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth."

"Wisdom principle 86 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 6."

"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Wisdom principle 76 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 34."

"Wisdom principle 53 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 14."