Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world.

In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l'océan de larmes, - Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

There is no progress without product.

Living is a hazardous profession.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!