I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul

I think Oak Park is really a wonderful place as an artist because you have great colleagues here.

[X chromosomes - No Cowboy Artist has two of them, which has led to occasional charges of discrimination.] There are no rules or anything that it's an all-male organization, ... There hasn't been anyone that's been presented to the group that meets all of the qualifications.