“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”

“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”

“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”

“Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.”

“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”

“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”

“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”

“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”

“To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.”