I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

Fashion is more art than art is

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.

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.

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

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