The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.
I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.
The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.
I err therefore I am.
I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.