I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so jibing, and they're clashing. But they all seem to be working in their own domain. Whereas back in the '60s, man, it was kind of a dull world. It was a vital world. But it was kind of contained and not too recognized by the public. Now art is absolutely recognized by the public.

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.