I pointed at Wireman's forehead. "This is your brain," I said. Then I pointed at my easel. "This is your brain on canvas.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

An ice sculpture in the Sahara makes about as much sense as donkey left open gaping wagon, Sergeant (add cream cheese sparingly).

Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.

I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

A car crash could be considered art, and I’d like to install one in a museum. Helmets would be sold at the admission booth.

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Some of us are philosophers, some are artists, some are rulers and some are some-others. But, we all are makers and proud labors.

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,which must be cautiously cared forand protected,from the harsh elementsof "human weather.