Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.