Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

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.

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

I always think that the project I'm working on will be the best.

True power is the power to empower others.

Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.