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

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

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

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.

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

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

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

Magic is not something supernatural, but part of the field dynamics of nature.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

I've never said I'm a fashion designer.

No libraries, no progress.