The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

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

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.

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.

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

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