Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

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.

We're not on the same page right now, but that's okay. Were still in the same story, and there's still so much more to be written. I won’t put down my pen if you won’t.

There will be a billion people out there, who will say you can't do it, Just make sure that you are not in that billion people.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

The will of man is the will of God.

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.