A responsible person is one who responds.

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.

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

When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize that much time has passed. It isn't necessarily a happy time - and may be very difficult to start if it is a job or an obligation. But if' you start with all the concrete needs and proceed in a thorough way - the creative process will take over and you will forget whether it is work or play. Working in the here and now is one of the most uncontaminated ways to work.

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.

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.