Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society