Don't explain, enjoy.

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.

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.