You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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.
You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.
I like to use my hands and make things. . . It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter. . . some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!