[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 ….
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….
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.
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention..
Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see..
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born..
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art..
My Peace I leave with you.
I don't like closed systems..
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of ….
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching..
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation..
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery..
Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me ….
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds..
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of..
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism..