Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
Dr. Gonzo: Lucy is an artist. Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand.
Barbara Covett: And Fatty Hodge pounced on her. A dubious double-act. The blonde... and the pig in knickers.
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.
I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
