It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

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

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

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

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.