To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.