I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

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