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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk read more
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to read more
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
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.
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but read more
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where they laid
to paint read more
From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where they laid
to paint the blue sky
jade.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, read more
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
