I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

Winning provides happiness. Losing provides wisdom.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

Cigarrettes make you look cool

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.