Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.