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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Balance is the enemy of art.
Balance is the enemy of art.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind read more
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the read more
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack read more
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to read more
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
