“The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air?”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“I blew my nose, blotted my eyes, buried as much of my face as I could in my handkerchief, and blurted out a feeble: "Sorry...something in my eye." The voice said: "Yes...beauty.”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.”
― The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
― The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
“San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
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