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 was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

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.

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

Film and art are close together.