“No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”

“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.”

“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”

“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”

“An artist is someone who makes art;only artist can create a work of art.”

“A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.”

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”