I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.
We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.
Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go.
Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.
I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.
Politicians really worry about being politically correct.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
