I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
America is like a dog. I'm sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can't actually explain issues to a dog.
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.
I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.