Quotes on Commercial Art

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.