Checking In - This Ain't no Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 - page 15

Stanley Bard chose most of the residents because they were creative, they
were artists of one kind or another. So people who lived at the Chelsea, or who
visited there, used to ask me, “What is your art?”
I'd tell them, “You're looking at it. My art is my lifestyle.”