Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art..

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything..

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away..

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head..

Art is there for nourishment, not explication..

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

Art is not 'about.' Art is..

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art..

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives..

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

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

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

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

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character..

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

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

When anything goes, everything goes..

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….

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's..

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

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..