If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.

I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.