Quote of the Day
November 15, 2026
“I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.”
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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.
