An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.