I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.