We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
“Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.”
“I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.”