I never met a pet I didn’t like.
I like church. It’s empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.
Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s. Peking and Moscow don’t have anything beautiful yet.
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.
I used to cut out paper dolls.
Buying is more American than thinking, and I’m as American as they come.
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it’s so – nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.
Sports figures are to the ’70s what movie stars were to the ’60s.
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.
I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.
If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I’d probably be a cult figure today.
Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.
If you don’t think about it, it’s right.
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see.
I like to work when I’m not working – do something that may not be considered work, but to me it’s work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.
I wish I hadn’t made so many images.