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What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

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New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

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My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

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I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.

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The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

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I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

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In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

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I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.

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To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 4th, 1941

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