My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

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.

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

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.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions!

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.