I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)