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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Art is longer than life.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.