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.
Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
Don’t think about making art...
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.
If there’s ever a problem, I film it and it’s no longer a problem. It’s a film.
I’d rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.
I do mostly portraits. So it’s just people’s faces, not really any ideas.
I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn’t decide whom to vote for.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.
I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that’ll be the new way.
If you’re traveling for five years or something like that, you’re going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don’t have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.
I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.
New things are always better than old things.
I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.
When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.
Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.
I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.