“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.”

“Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.”

“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946”