Art Quotes

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Art to me is a question mark.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be.

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn’t identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.