. . . no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.
The creative habit is like a drug.
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Everything changes but change
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.