You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.