America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.
Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.
Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.