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

If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anythin….

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good pro….

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when ther….

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things..

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back..

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever..

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way..

You know it's ART, when the check clears..

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age..

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things..

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever..

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting..

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad..

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it..

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life..

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

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up..

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with..