All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.

There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.

Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

My mind wants to interpret All my dreams. My heart wants to love All my dreams. My soul wants to fulfil All my dreams.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Never abandon imagination