“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
“It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.”
“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours.”
“We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
“I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.”