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"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."

"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate."

"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
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"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."


"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."


"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."


"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."


"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."


"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."


"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."
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