Kenneth Noland

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.