I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece..

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time..

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce..

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or so….

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the g….

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..

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I start….

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is.

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy..

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street..

I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like..

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows..

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to….

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is..

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the ….

Reruns are my favorite things on TV..

I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths o….

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are dai….

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for..

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadow….