If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to tr….

Invest time, don't spend it..

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so t….

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds….

... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or ….

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of a….

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably.".

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this..

I don't come from money..

Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create r….

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps thi….

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alo….

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process..

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart..

Anger is a good motivator..

It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed..

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and….

When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic considerat….

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else..

There are days when I double fault..

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing….