The Ninja Turtles finally get to go to the surface and try out their Ninja moves by defending the weak...

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell

Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

I�m not an abstractionist. I�m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I�m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. Mark Rothko

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. Mark Rothko

"Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them." Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"A great free joy surges through me when I work . . . with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes. (Like Belmonte weaving the pattern of his being by twisting the powerful bulls around him, I seem to achieve a comparable ecstasy in bringing forth the flaming life through these large areas of canvas. And as the blues or reds or blacks leap and quiver in their tenuous ambience or rise in austere thrusts to carry their power infinitely beyond the bounds of the limiting field, I move with them and find a resurrection from the moribund oppressions that held me only hours ago.) Only they are complete too soon, and I must quickly move on to another to keep the spirit alive and unburdened by the labor my Puritan reflexes tell me must be the cost of my joy." Clyfford Still

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing. Jasper Johns

Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. Jasper Johns

I have meant what I have done. Or � I have often meant what I have done. Or � I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or � I have tried to mean what I was doing. Jasper Johns

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so. Henri Matisse

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view. Robert Rauschenberg

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
Marcel Duchamp

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
Marcel Duchamp

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters.

There is nothing so stable as change.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine. .

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs.

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Energy is eternal delight.

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

... pen on paper, by sticks and stones and bones, March 4, 2006

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