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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Balance is the enemy of art.
Balance is the enemy of art.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove read more
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
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"?.
