Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent read more

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to read more

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.