I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Do you know where the dead spirits depart to?

Inconvienience pushes one into heroic action...

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

Better a barefoot than none.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

One does not become fully human painlessly.