Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.
Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.
Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
The image gets built one way or another. . . it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that. . . awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.