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.

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.

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.