Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning..

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in ….

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness an….

My art has gained some high value..

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom.

In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars, the numberless cent….

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you..

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much d….

Fashion went from being much more rarefied to being more accessible. Now everything is changing in the art world, too: even the highest level of inst….

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves..

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In Fren….

Too much information about nothing..

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written..

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that lif….

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media..

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version….

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of cul….

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work..

I'm a perfectly equipped failure..

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so importa….

Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims hi….