All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,’ he said, ‘all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...

done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane...

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly… I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye...

Yet each, in itself—this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all—each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was...

Success is not in the possession of multitudes of dreams; it is in the art of processing dreams into multiple realities!

We must change life,’ the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of...

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

The mountains are where God proves He’s better than Michelangelo at sculpting.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. The best songs are the ones that make you feel...

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it’s … makin’ ART.

If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world’s population, like mental mayonnaise, we’d have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

My favorite color on canvas is nudity.

I had a dream about you. You were trying to perfect the art of sexual intercourse, and I offered you the use of one of my statues to practice on. Artists have to stick together,...

Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded room?

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death,...

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility….

When my words are concealedWith lies and disguises, truth and beyondInsecurities in the veil of trustBetrayal in bounds of liesIt’s just the charm of words darlingGiving the illusion of happiness inside misery

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes...

The painting has a life of its own

And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I wouldn’t know how to begin to explain what this film has meant to...

Dalin must have whiffed the anarch in me, a man with no ties to state or society. Still, he was unable to sense an autonomy that puts up with these forces as objective facts but...

An artist’s work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.

A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was...

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am...

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

L’art est justifié dans la mesure où il ajoute à la vie juste ce qui lui manque pour être plus vraie qu’elle-même.