How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

I just wanted to do something important.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

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.