I Wouldn't Use The Same

While My Classmates Were Reading Their Textbooks, I Drew In The Margins.

You Can't Make Either Life Or Art, You Have To Work In The Hole In Between, Which Is Undefined. That's What Makes The Adventure Of Painting.

Work Is My Joy... Work Is My Therapy, I Don't Know Anybody Who Loves Work As Much As I Do.

For The First Time, I Wasn't Embarrassed By The Look Of Beauty, Of Elegance, Because When You See Someone Who Has Only One Rag As Their Property, But It Happens To Be Beautiful And Pink And Silk, Beauty Doesn't Have To Be Separated... I Have Always Said That You Shouldn't Have Biases, You Shouldn't Have Prejudices. But Before That [before His Trip To India, Circa 1975] I'd Never Been Able To Use Purple, Because It Was Too Beautiful.

This Was My First Encounter With Art As Art (he Saw 'pinky' Painted By Sir Thomas Lawrence And 'the Blue Boy" Painted By Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody Actually Made Those Paintings.. ..(it) Was The First Time I Realized You Could Be An Artist.