One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.