Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

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.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.