There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

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

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

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

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.