I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.