Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
Great art changes you.
Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
All great art is a visual form of prayer.
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.
I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.