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"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 project to work on . . . do something really artistic."
"I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine."
"If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today."
"After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex."
"After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it."
"I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite"
"Don't think about making art."
"The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson."
"Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening."
"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."
"And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory."
"I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it."
"You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes."
"If you don’t think about it, it’s right."
"If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film."
"The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better."
"The world fascinates me."
"All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button."
"(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains."
"Beauty is a sign of intelligence."