A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

It's the greatest show on earth. It's unbelievable.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.