I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
every good artist paints what he is
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
My first influence obviously was Picasso.
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
You need a big ego to be an artist.
Artists are like everybody else.
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
Easel painting means small painting.
When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
Protect me from what I want.
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
