I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.