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.

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

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

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.

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.

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.