It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.