As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

A negative is never finished.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there's not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people's emotions.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.