“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”

“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”

“I am the eye that makes light visible”

“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.”

“Life itself is an art form.”

“The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus.”

“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”