Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For...

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let’s knock them while they’re alive.

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

In America the biggest is the best.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don’t even care if these people exist.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

What’s the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I’m more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity – and never a clique.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was...

I take what I see work. I’m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving...

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I’ll admit that it’s not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven’t really had to alter it very much ever since.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there’d be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions...

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.

Context begins with other artists – seniors and mentors.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do...

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

You’re telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I didn’t want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.

But certainly the Abstract Expressionists were in a more romantic mode of painting, or give and take, than my paintings are seen to be anyway.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I’ve always been honest, open, and upfront.

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.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don’t respond to that the way I used to.

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work...

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

For me context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say.