Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
Art rides in on pleasure.
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
Don't explain, enjoy.
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Most art is just surface noise.
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
