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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

From the shore.. one looks upward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000 green brushes attempting where they laid to paint the blue sky jade.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier to become a real estate agent.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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.