As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. – Jasper Johns
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. – W. Somerset Maugham
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. – Jerry Saltz
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the permanent quarterback. I didnt know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys. – Junior Seau
