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

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

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.

I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

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