No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

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

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.