"It is always possible to create something original."

-- George Gershwin

“While there is tea, there is hope.”

Source : Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1908). “The Plays of Arthur W. Pinero: Sweet Lavender”
“A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.”

Source : 1952 'TheAmerican Action Painters', in Art News, no.51, Dec.
“One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.”
“So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.”
“When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.”
“A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.”

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