I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
