“What do you do when you find yourself out in a lie—even a white one? Well, one thing for sure, you don't put on black, you don't mourn and beat out a staccato mea culpa on your breast. You go! Get the hell out! Take a chance! Forget you're an American, living in the suburbs of success, hoping to move into the big city...You go!”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“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 trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“The story ends with a crack the actor Hans Conreid made on seeing my two hundred black and white pots. Said Hans, "You're one actor no one will ever be able to say he hasn't got a pot to..." End quote.”
― 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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