Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

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

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

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

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

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

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.