All Art Is Autobiographical; The Pearl Is

It Is Only When I Am Doing My Work That I Feel Truly Alive.

For People Who Live In The Imagination, There Is No Lack Of Subjects. To Seek For The Exact Moment At Which Inspiration Comes Is False. Imagination Floods Us With Suggestions All The Time, From All Directions.

Like Many People, I Have No Religion, And I Am Just Sitting In A Small Boat Drifting With The Tide. I Live In The Doubts Of My Duty.... I Think There Is Dignity In This, Just To Go On Working.... Today We Stand Naked, Defenseless, And More Alone Than At Any Time In History. We Are Waiting For Something, Perhaps Another Miracle, Perhaps The Martians. Who Knows?

What Is An Artist? A Provincial Who Finds Himself Somewhere Between A Physical Reality And A Metaphysical One... It’s This In-between That I’m Calling A Province, This Frontier Country Between The Tangible World And The Intangible One - Which Is Really The Realm Of The Artist.

Our Minds Can Shape The Way A Thing Will Be Because We Act According To Our Expectations.