I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.