"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza."

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old."

"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick."

"I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many."

"I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists."

"Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees."