When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.

There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.

The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay?

Silent streets have many things to say.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.