It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.
John LurieThe paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.
John LurieWhen I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.
John LurieI think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years or so, more than almost anyone else are people like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and even Chris Rock, back when he was doing the edgier stuff.
John Lurie