Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.