Richard Artschwager — American Artist born on December 26, 1923, died on February 09, 2013

Richard Ernst Artschwager was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. While known for stylistic independence, his work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism... (wikipedia)

I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.
The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.