“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.”

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

If you don’t think about it, it’s right.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Success is what sells.

I always notice flowers.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. To seek for gold in the far west, Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. His presence here is an insult to the spirits of our ancestors.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

I made many mistakes but my triumphs have received far greater publicity than my failures.