Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.
I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality.
I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.