Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
Content is a glimpse.
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.
I love collaborating.
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.