Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.