A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.
Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.