In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.