I Think The Problem With The Arts

After A Few Days In Hospital, I Was Thinking, Oh, Gee - I Raised In A Church, Protestant Upbringing Which I'd Rejected As An Adult - I'm Lying In Bed Thinking, Hmmm, Maybe I Ought To Pray. They Always Say There Are No Atheists In A Foxhole... And I Thought, Here I Am In A Pretty Good-sized Foxhole... And I Thought Naahhh. I Wouldn't Respect Any God Who Would Listen To Me After I'd Rejected Him So Vociferously.

It's Always A Pleasure To Talk About Someone Else's Work.

I Think The Problem With The Arts In America Is How Unimportant It Seems To Be In Our Educational System.

The Advice I Like To Give Young Artists, Or Really Anybody Who’ll Listen To Me, Is Not To Wait Around For Inspiration. Inspiration Is For Amateurs; The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work.

The Reason I Don't Like Realist, Photorealist, Neorealist, Or Whatever, Is That I Am As Interested In The Artificial As I Am In The Real.