I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Appreciation and gratitude show your true wealth emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

First we have to understand that we are not the mind! We are identical with neither its bright, nor its dark side!

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Death's in the good-bye.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Incredulity is not wisdom.

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.