Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.