For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

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.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

Peace is the foundation of yoga. Karma yoga is the effort for bringing peace and happiness in the world.

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.