Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.