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

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

I've often stopped working for long periods.

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

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 ..."

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 grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."