A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.