I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

Dancing is a beautiful thing.

Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.