In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.