I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

Until we learn to love everyone in this universe, how can there be peace?

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

I used to hate the sound of my voice.

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.