I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?

I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume.