"I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."
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"I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."
"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
"I am a deeply superficial person."
"Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is."
"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
"I think everybody should like everybody."
"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget."
"...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel."
"The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet."
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
"I never fall apart, because I never fall together."
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night."
"A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’"
"I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty."
"I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time."
"Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium."
"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything."