Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Creativity flourishes in solitude.

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.