"When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run."

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

"I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it."

"I'm not a real corpse. I'm a commercial corpse."

"My instinct about painting says, 'If you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets."