I just wanted to do something important.
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
The story is the first thing and the last thing.
I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.