Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
Art rides in on pleasure.
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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.
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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.
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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.
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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