Paul Laffoley

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,…

— Paul Laffoley

I think it was because [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were part of what made up the movie, The Day the Earth…

— Paul Laffoley

I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is…

— Paul Laffoley

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

— Paul Laffoley

When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until…

— Paul Laffoley

I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe.

— Paul Laffoley

I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch…

— Paul Laffoley

I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius…

— Paul Laffoley

I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too…

— Paul Laffoley

[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns…

— Paul Laffoley

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace…

— Paul Laffoley

My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."…

— Paul Laffoley

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're…

— Paul Laffoley

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I…

— Paul Laffoley

I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he…

— Paul Laffoley

[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he…

— Paul Laffoley

It was on Long John's show that I heard Orfeo Angelucci being interviewed. In other words, the whole thing about the green…

— Paul Laffoley

I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of…

— Paul Laffoley

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a…

— Paul Laffoley

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

— Paul Laffoley

I thought George Adamski was actually a fraud. Looking at him, I found him repulsive. In other words, he didn't have the…

— Paul Laffoley

The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is.

— Paul Laffoley

I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils…

— Paul Laffoley

[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's…

— Paul Laffoley