We're connected to God through faith and Satan through fear.
Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).
Artists don't often know much about writing. . . but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.
Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.
Books make up no small part of human happiness.