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.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

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