The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.””My mother didn’t love me.” So what.”My husband won’t ball me. So what.”I’m a success but I’m still...

Art is what you can get away with.

I always notice flowers.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would...

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

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…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in...

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Just because people throw it out and don’t have any use for it, doesn’t mean it’s garbage.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

You know it’s ART, when the check clears.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.

I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone...

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

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Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do...

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

History books are being re-written all the time

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like...

working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art – and good business is the best art.

I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it,...

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.