Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of read more

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.