I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to say if you are any good or not. Then, there is the courage to follow your work wherever it's going to take you. And the courage to fight for your work.

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.