The story is the first thing and the last thing.

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

I'm the oldest antique in town.