Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration patience anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes they go through one stage of relaxation after another and every stage releases tension.

In editing it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.