Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.
If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
A synthesis—an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea—is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural patterns that resonate, not only within the subject we’re working in, but with other subjects and areas of our lives. The abstraction helps you transfe...
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
We dress the way we think.
It is difficult to make political art work.