“It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.”

“Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.”

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.”

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

“What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.”

“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”

“Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”