I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Curiosity is the main energy.

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

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.

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

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.