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.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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

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