I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.