Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.