“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.”

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”

“When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.”

“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”