"The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research."

“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”

Source : "It is", No.4, Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29, 30, Autumn, 1959.

“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”

“Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.”

“Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.”

“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”

“People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative André Carson (D, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 27, 2010.

“Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”

“I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.”

Source : "Flavor Flav heads back to high school" by James Hibberd, www.reuters.com. October 1, 2009.