If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks -- but never three."

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.