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 like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the… — 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 in itself. — 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
