I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.