The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

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

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

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

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

My only politics have been friendship.