The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.