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

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

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 place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

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

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."