“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”

“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”

“When art wins, everyone wins.”

“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.”

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”

“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“It's clever, but is it Art?”

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”