“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”

“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”

“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”

“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”

“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”

“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”