My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.