There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

Seven smirked as he walked back over to me. "I gave you catharsis last night. Twice.

The Holy Scripture is the truth of God.

Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.