Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.
Bad taste makes the day go by faster.
Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.
Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off.
I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.
Think rich, look poor.
You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.
When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.
After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that’s much more interesting in the long run.
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like “charming” and “clever” and “pretty” are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else’s space for a while and pretend you’re a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don’t even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.
I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat.
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
Pop art is for everyone.
The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.