“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Most people in America think Art is a man’s name.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece.

Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

Look poor, think rich.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Life is earnest, art is gay.