Source: 1950s, Artists' Session at Studio 35, (1950), p. 213
“The eye seems to be responding to something living.”
Modern Artists in America, Robert Motherwell et al. eds., First series, New York 1952, p. 100
1950s
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Source: Total Eclipse (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 125)

Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
Context: Where I live is not necessarily in New York City. That's where my apartment is, but I live in Mexico, or I live in Indonesia. I live in Japan. I feel as comfortable in those other cultures, because, in a way, I'm always uncomfortable. I can't explain that, exactly, but I put myself into situations where I'm forced to do something, to create, to respond, to see differently.

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s Remarks at the Annual Meeting of RA National Academy of Sciences (22 April 2009) http://www.gov.am/en/speeches/1/item/2853/
2009

Out of Habit
Song lyrics
Variant: Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.
You know it doesn't seem fair,
That I'm living for something I can't even define.
And there you are right there, in the mean time.