American Quotes

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.

I'm a very determined person.

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.