One of my favorite comedies is Three Amigos! Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.
I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.
I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.
If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?