The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing ...
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like ...
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
Technology adds nothing to art.
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown awa...
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes ...
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
One eye sees, the other feels.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
