“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”

“Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.”

“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.”

“I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.”

“First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.”

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

“I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.”

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

“I paint with shapes.”

“There is nothing new in art except talent.”

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”

“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”

“Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.”

“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.”

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”

“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”

“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.”