Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

An artist is a person first.

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.

Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.