Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments..

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every oth….

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art..

I get criticized for anything I do..

And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress c….

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey a….

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation..

When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overw….

You can't reach your potential without haters..

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody..

Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is someth….

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just ….

Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are o….

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces..

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the….

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away..

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?.

For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make. The idea that I should be afraid of publicly ridi….

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose..

One truly understands only what one can create..

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing..