“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

I always think I don’t do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die.

Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

The nicer I am, the more people think I’m lying.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.