When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

Well, youre not incorrect on either front, because absolutely, there are children here in this country that need help as are everywhere in the world.

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.