FROM PICASSO AND HIS MUCH YOUNGER WOMEN TO WARHOL SURROUNDED BY CUTE BOYS

According to Freud, all artists are motivated by the desire for three things: fame, money and beautiful lovers. Given the obvious truth of this observation, why is it still taboo for any artist to admit to this array of motives, particularly the first? Take Martin Amis. He has always subscribed to Arthur Koestler's dictum that a writer's ambition should be to trade 100 contemporary readers for 10 readers in 10 years' time and for one in 100.

-The Independant
Sept 11 2008