No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.

God’s work does not make our work unnecessary

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.