A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal.

So much is happening in this area worldwide, it would simply be a drop in the ocean. I would rather spend my energy on developing as an artist, and seriously making works of art. I believe it is the duty of the artist to do that, the duty of a person who has certain capacities. Art is at the very centre of society, in my view.

For pure spirits, the coupling of art and money is abject. Art is antithetical to the market in that the latter apparently reduces something exceptional to a simple commodity.

Works of art, which represent the highest level of spiritual production, will find favor in the eyes of the bourgeois only if they are presented as being liable to directly generate material wealth.

For a collector, putting a price on an artwork simply means assigning a scale of value to his pleasure. He is governed by highly relative principles, and these reveal the extent to which the art market is a mental construction.