Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. 672
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. 734
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, ‘then’ what do we do? 650
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. 629
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. 697
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts. 2.17K
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? 2.23K
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. 707
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? 2.61K
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. 653
