"You know it's ART, when the check clears."
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"Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job."
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"How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene."
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"Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come."
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"Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?"
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"If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping."
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"I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something."
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"There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives."
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"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting."
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
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"If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy."
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"Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too."
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"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
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"I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own."
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"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."
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"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back."
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"When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something."
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"I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about."
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"Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea."
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"I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York."
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