All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.