A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and read more

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

A picture is a poem without words.

A picture is a poem without words.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack read more

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all read more

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be