Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs photographs of advertising sculpture with ready-made objects videos using already-existing film.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is can do or is worth on an existential alchemical level.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic there's a commercial world around it: the ballet opera any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence to recreate it in the eternal.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art because to us it is false and visionary was to the makers of it true and existent.

The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.