Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.