“I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.”

“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”

“Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.”

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”