Artists We Lost In 2018, In Their Own Words

“Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love.” (Robert Indiana)
“It never came to mind: ‘Maybe I’m not good enough.’ I never thought like that.” (Roy Hargrove)
“The myth was that because you were black that you could not do classical dance. I proved that to be wrong.” (Arthur Mitchell)
“Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.” (Ursula K. Le Guin)
— The New York Times