What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size. . . has ever surpassed my courage.
White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.
I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.
When I kept surfing, surfing kept me.
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.
I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.