3 years ago in Quotes
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
 6 years ago in Quotes
Shitting on a canvas and calling it experimental so it will mean something gives us some nice information about people, but no useful information about art.
 7 years ago in Quotes
When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fuckin' ROCKED! I don't care if they died in a puddle of their own VOMIT, I WANT SOMEONE WHO PLAYS FROM HIS FUCKIN' HEART! "Mommy! Mommy! The man Bill told me to listen to has a blood bubble on his nose" SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
The isms go; the ist dies; art remains.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Awe is the Grail of artistic achievement. No other human emotion possesses such raw transformative power, and none is more difficult to evoke. Few and far between are the works of man that qualify as truly awesome.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience. Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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 1 decade ago in Quotes
A man's work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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