New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.
The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
