The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
All I owe the world is my art.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
I do so love the art of severing boundaries
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
To create a work of art is to create the world.
The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.
Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
