Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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.
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
Art is not 'about.' Art is.
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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.
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.
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.
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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.
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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.
