An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.