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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

I love my wife.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.