If They Blow It [the World] Up,

In The First Grade, I Already Knew The Pattern Of My Life. I Didn't Know The Living Of It, But I Knew The Line… From The First Day In School Until The Day I Graduated, Everyone Gave Me One Hundred Plus In Art. Well, Where Do You Go In Life? You Go To The Place Where You Got One Hundred Plus.

I Still Want To Do My Work. I Still Want To Do My Livingness. And I Have Lived. I Have Been Fulfilled. I Recognized What I Had, And I Never Sold It Short. And I Ain't Through Yet.

I Was Given The Gifts Of The Artist, And The Trouble That Goes With Them: So I Have That Blessing, And There Was Never A Time Thati Questioned It Or Doubted It.... For Forty Years, I Wanted To Jump Out Of Windows.

Greatness Breaks Laws.

I Only Know This - That You Can’t Give Advice To An Artist.