Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth throug….

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence….

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrar….

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo th….

Im not trying to do conceptual art..

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms..

The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because….

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers..

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,'….

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out..

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always….

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with….

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation..

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it..

Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take awa….

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother..

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today..

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way..

There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of the song. You bas….

Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous..

When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does….