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 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.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

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.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

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.