The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

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

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

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.