“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

“Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent." p.179"He wondered if there was a greater distance than the one between two people in the same bed pretending to sleep." p.213”

“I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.”

“How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.”

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

“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.”