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

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

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.

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.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me.

if you wanna make friends, you have to be hypocrite, but if you wanna have best friends you need to be honest to them

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.