An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

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

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?