I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

[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.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

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

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

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.