He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing. . . . Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.
Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.
It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration.