“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

“Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.”

“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”

“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”

“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”

“I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.”

“I like that the art world isn't regulated.”