"The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization."

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."

"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."

"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."