"You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls."
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"The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother."
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"I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car."
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"When I came to New York, it was cheap!"
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"My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed."
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"We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it."
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"I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs."
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"Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!"
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"I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me."
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"Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?"
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"Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change."
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"I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ...""
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"What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street."
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"I believe that woman are superior to men."
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"It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure."
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"New York is dead. It's too expensive."
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