I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

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 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.

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.