The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

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.

If you want a new life you need to hurry up and close the door on your old life.

My family came to this country to take advantage of opportunity, not to take advantage of America.

The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.

Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.