If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality..

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best..

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..

Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it..

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion..

Live to paint, don't paint to live..

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas..

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it..

When anything goes, everything goes..

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one..

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, climbin….

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives..

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time..

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air..

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character..

Art is not 'about.' Art is..

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious..

Art is there for nourishment, not explication..

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it..

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's..