It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever….

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art..

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected..

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a….

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye….

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser..

I'd love to have a family -- sometime in the future..

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or eff….

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he lo….

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film..

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order..

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost calle….

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money ….

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

I only eat things that you don't have to kill..

I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of a….

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they….

Every experience is worth having..

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring..

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

I make my relationships at work..