If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

Being happy is not the only happiness.