The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. . . I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.
Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child. ' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.