No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Love costs us much, but we still need it.Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it.Faith costs us much, but we still practice it.Life costs us much, but we still desire it.

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.