Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.