Robert Motherwell

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.