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.

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.

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.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

If you respect yourself, you will respect others.

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.