"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."

"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."

"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."

"The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?"

"Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts."

"Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors."