I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

I told my broker that as long as he doesn't tell me where my money should go, I won't tell him where he should go.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

I’ve done made a deal with the devil.