Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
