I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

Better silent than stupid.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.