I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people…

- Larry Rivers

One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The bi…

- Larry Rivers

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

- Larry Rivers

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

- Larry Rivers

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

- Larry Rivers

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

- Larry Rivers