All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

A functioning police state needs no police.