I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
Perception precedes reality.
If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.
I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
Art? That’s a man’s name.
If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.
The clothes of Courreges are so nice.
Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.
I’m for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.
I want to be a machine.
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don’t want to get too close; I don’t like to touch things...
Sociological critics are waste makers.
I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
The best museum is Bloomingdales.
Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.
I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn’t popular, because if it’s good, it’ll come back, and you’ll be a recognized beauty once again.