The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.

I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.