Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.