Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
Live to paint, don't paint to live.
When anything goes, everything goes.
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
Art is not 'about.' Art is.
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
