I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms.

One outing his velocity will be up and he'll struggle with control and his changeup, but last outing he put it all together. It's a huge step forward for Carlos and the organization.

One outing his velocity will be up and he'll struggle with control and his changeup, but last outing he put it all together, ... It's a huge step forward for Carlos and the organization.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.