Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

The dance is the mother of all languages.

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts