Opera Director Inspirational Quotes (52)

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.