Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.