Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
What you have to do is break all the rules.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.
If stocks are attractive and you don't buy, you don't just look like an idiot, you are an idiot.
Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.
The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.