I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.
You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.
If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.
The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best.
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
