Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most of all be real.

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Creativity means not copying.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.