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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it -- just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - London Magazine, March, 1967.

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

In the empty chalice of the rivercarved grand canyon dawn has drawn with gold pink orange light crayons.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream].