The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the sys….

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy..

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science..

When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve someth….

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films….

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm f….

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys..

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignifican….

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet..

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry..

I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare..

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettines….

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural..

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced..

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc.….

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself..

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of t….

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange….

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question..

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts..

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or liter….