If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art..

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex..

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't wi….

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth..

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, a….

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting..

I will not make anymore boring art..

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood..

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both..

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent..

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well..

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard..

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be pai….

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to..

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what….

I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doin….

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection..

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time..

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful..