It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrinos work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. – Jerry Saltz
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; as an old writer quaintly says, A dog is the only thing on this earth that luvs you more than he luvs himself. – Dr. Lauder Lindsay
