The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the cultu...
I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.
They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.
So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
