Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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.