You Fought Fair. If The Other Guy

The Artist Is The Lowest Form Of Life On The Rung Of The Ladder. The Publishers Are Usually Businessmen Who Deal With Businessmen. They Deal With Promotional People. They Deal With Financial People. They Deal With Accountants. They Deal With People Who Work On Higher Levels. They Deal With Tax People, But Have Absolutely No Interest In Artists, In Individual Artists, Especially Very Young Artists.

My Ambition Was Always To Be A Perfect Picture Of An American.

I Feel That Life Is A Series Of Very Interesting Questions, And Very Poor Answers. But I Myself Am Willing To Settle For The Questions. If The Questions Are Interesting, I Feel I Evoke Them In What I Do. I Feel That Should Be Good Enough For Everyone Else.

Of Course, Mothers Were Very Conventional, Everything Was Very Conventional. You Had To Have Approval.

It's Not In The Draftsmanship, It's In The Man. Like I Say, A Tool Is Dead. A Brush Is A Dead Object. It's In The Man. If You Want To Do It, You Do It.