Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

I am in the prime of my womanhood, nunga-nungas poised and trembling (attractively). Lips puckered up and in peak condition for a snogging fest.

I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.