To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
As for me prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties and then tailing off.