I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name..

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts..

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol….

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the ….

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things..

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing..

The subject comes first, the medium second..

The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. ….

If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what it's always been about. Unless yo….

I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial page….

I think with success you do get a little more guarded and you start to change your friends. You become more isolated. And you start hanging around wi….

What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can….

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative and not just in terms of politics - how if y….

The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight ev….

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough.".

I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I ….