I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

I once wore a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo.