“I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.”

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.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

I’ve been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

I’m not big on make up. I only have a make up artist for events.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.