If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.

Nothing ever happened except God.

I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent that while you're creating, you feel very self-sufficient. I've certainly experienced that.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.