An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.