"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."

"Impulses are hard to come by these days."

"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."

"The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race."

"I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop."

"Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism."

"It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall."

"This acting was very hard work."

"Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility."

"As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was."

"I am primarily concerned with the condition of man."