I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I don't have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I honestly don't need much money. People love to buy me drinks. Hostesses love to feed me. Famous artists lavish me with expensive artworks,… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I should be paid to go out. You see, I'm good for business. I class up a joint. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist,… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
