The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

It's great not to be a collector.