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

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

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

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.