Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.