I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?