“But I’m not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.”

“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”

“I start a picture and I finish it.”

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”

“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”

“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.”

“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”

“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”

“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”