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“Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!”
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“Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.”
Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014. 
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“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
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“I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.”
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“When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.”
Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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“I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.”
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“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”
Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press
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“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.”
