Quotes from Larry Rivers

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.