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.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

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

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

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