Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

A negative is never finished.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

And I decided I'd rather love too much than not at all.

I have this beast. He comes and goes at will.Silence.He's very powerful.Silence.He has control over me.Silence.I want to come and go at will.Silence.I want to be the powerful one.

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.