Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U. S. banks to invent new products.
Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my case, suddenly - we become resolved not to believe this anymore. It takes a dedicated practice to follow up on that resolution, because the conditioning is very strong to keep generating self-demeaning stories.
I am proud to be American. We wouldn't have our big dreams without this quality, but if we can't agree on the shape of reality, when a White House, on the second day of a new administration, is arguing for alternative facts, that's problematic.
Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.