Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.