“I'm making a statement about conformity."For or against?"That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher."Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn”

“I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.”

“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”

“When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.”

“Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.”

“There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.”