I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

Tax is for the poor or the stupid people.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.