I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in ….

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness an….

My art has gained some high value..

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much d….

Fashion went from being much more rarefied to being more accessible. Now everything is changing in the art world, too: even the highest level of inst….

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In Fren….

Too much information about nothing..

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that lif….

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of cul….

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work..

Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims hi….

The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at….

The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature nov….

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing..

I draw manga, therefore I am!.

Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as g….

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine..

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves..

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless..

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom..

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality..