The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

You're like a turd that won't flush.