Art Reference Quotes

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.

I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?