This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

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.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.