While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Basically painting is total idiocy.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.