Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

A good book is a man's best friend. It never leaves you even in your darkest hour.

Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

I say God is the ultimate.

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?