Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.