Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Nobody values your time but YOU.

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.