Quotes
It was all coming together in about 1962, I guess. More and more, I mean, because you had Lichtenstein coming on the scene, and Warhol and Rosenquist. Things were kind of clean and slick.
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
I used collage primarily because I was impatient and secondarily because I didn't have any point of view to paint the things myself and I felt very unskilled-I'd never done this before.
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
We must part for if we have two kings we must have two beds.
Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.
It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind.
I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sunday when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.
Some people would say I've made it now.