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[good Taste] Is A Nineteenth-century Concept. And Good Taste Has Never Really Been Defined. The Effort Of Projecting 'good Taste' Is So Studied That It Offends Me. No, I Prefer To Negate That. We Have To Put A Period To So-called Good Taste.

And I Saw Darkness For Weeks. It Never Dawned On Me That I Could Come Out Of It, But You Heal. Nature Heals You, And You Do Come Out Of It. All Of A Sudden I Saw A Crack Of Light ... Then All Of A Sudden I Saw Another Crack Of Light. Then I Saw Forms In The Light. And I Recognized That There Was No Darkness, That In Darkness There'll Always Be Light.

Another Thing About Creation Is That Every Day It Is Like It Gave Birth, And It's Always Kind Of An Innocent And Refreshing. So It's Always Virginal To Me, And It's Always A Surprise. ... Each Piece Seems To Have A Life Of Its Own. Every Little Piece Or Every Big Piece That I Make Becomes A Very Living Thing To Me, Very Living. I Could Make A Million Pieces; The Next Piece Gives Me A Whole New Thing. It Is A New Center. Life Is Total At That Particular Time. And That's Why It's Right. That Reaffirms My Life.

The Outside Wold Pressures You Into A Mold, But If You Don't Accept That - You Gamble With Life. Call It Gambling.

I Was Given The Gifts Of The Artist, And The Trouble That Goes With Them: So I Have That Blessing, And There Was Never A Time Thati Questioned It Or Doubted It.... For Forty Years, I Wanted To Jump Out Of Windows.