"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours"

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"