If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and make them palatable that make money.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
The best artists are gone now.
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
