You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
Art is about paying attention.
I’m one of the first Americans who wasn’t a torturer or an interrogator.
You know the reason I love the stars is because we can’t hurt them: we can’t burn them, we can’t melt them, we can’t make them overflow, we can’t flood them or burn them up – so we keep reacing for them.
I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I’ve found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
The fewer expectations you have, the better.
It’s good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.
You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It’s so easy to get into that rut of production.
I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, “Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don’t want to see something crappy. They don’t. They want to be at something really special.”
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
It’s just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
It’s the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country – to get a better view.
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Audiences, whether they’re seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.