I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

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.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

The medicine of the future will be music and sound.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

God has a plan for you today: one designed to help get you to Heaven.

I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.