Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

To accomplish your mission, follow your passion.

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.