The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.