Occupation: Artist Birth: June 16, 1957
I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up wit….
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act..
In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space….
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings..
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I ca….
Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why..
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on t….
What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether….
Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened..
I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much….
Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered..
In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their liter….
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness..
When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms..
My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work ….
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conven….
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as yo….
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament a….
I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if….
I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a pu….
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writi….