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Don't explain, enjoy.
Art rides in on pleasure.
Art is not 'about.' Art is.
Most art is just surface noise.
Live to paint, don't paint to live.
When anything goes, everything goes.
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.