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

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

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.

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

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.

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.