I never really separated painting and literature.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

Tis always morning somewhere.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.