"The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple."

“I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.”

“I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.”

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

“Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.”

Source : "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

“I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.”

“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”

“We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.”

“The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.”