The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

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.

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Be the answer not the question.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

I don't tend to stand still for very long.