“In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.”

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It’s all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.

I’m back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn’t have an audience in mind, just the artist’s expression.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.