It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.