Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
I became a set designer for opera.
Kids are so shrewd.
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
