We have art in order not to die of life.

My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Good art will never match your sofa.

That which perhaps hears more silly remarks than anything else in the world is a picture in a museum.

The idea is more important than the object.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

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

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are much more interesting.

I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.