I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.

Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.