In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

I never wish for critics.