I was not in school anymore: I could say what I wanted.

it is troubling how many people expect applause, recognition, when they have not even begun to learn an art or a craft. Instant success is the order of the day ... I wonder whether this is not part of our corruption by machines. Machines do things very quickly and outside the natural rhythm of life ... So the few things that we still do, such as cooking, knitting, gardening, anything at all that cannot be hurried, have a very particular value.

Human beings often do their best work when they are able to produce themselves intellectually but also actively, and … contemplate themselves in a world they have created

When you're an artist, you are searching for freedom. You'll never find it, because there ain't any freedom. But at least you searched for it. In fact, art should be called "the search."