When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.
Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.