The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion..

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography ….

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best..

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a s….

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do….

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard..

Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it hold….

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms..

Art is a business, like any other..

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,….

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness..

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path….

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings..

The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is ….

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?.

It's important to go against the grain. My favorite celebrity, across arts and sports and everything, is Muhammad Ali. And he was famous for speaking….

Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to….

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail..

All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not solois….

I like the boundaryless potential you get when you make work for a context that is open to interpretation. Thinking about an art context is too claus….

Don’t be against things so much as for things..