“I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.”

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”

“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.”

“Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.”