Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.