"No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done"

"there was no 'subject-matter'. What we call subject matter now, was then painting itself. Subject matter came later on when parts of those works were taken out arbitrarily, when a man for no reason is…"

"f all people were to come by equal concepts and inclinations, without any difference whatsoever, all the souls of all the people would be regarded as one soul. Its value would be like the light of the…"

"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain."

"There were subjects we tackled that had never been even discussed, like I had an abortion. Nobody ever talked about that."