In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

Never let anyone try and make you into something that you're not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.