And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway