A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
Film and art are close together.
Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
I'm not bothered by my appearance.
I hardly went to school.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Fear is the highest fence.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
I never fall in love.
All I do is go to the movies.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
