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

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

I believe that woman are superior to men.

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

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.