When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

All art is subversive.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.