I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

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

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.