Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Inside skull vast as outside skull

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

You too must seek the sun.

The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.