Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
