Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

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.

The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul...

Only where there is life can there be home.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?""It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.""Must be a human thing.""Exactly.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.