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.
Most art is just surface noise.
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don't explain, enjoy.
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.
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.
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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.
Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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.
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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