Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.