I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.