Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.
Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.
The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.
I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.
A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.
Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.
