Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.