For what the horse does under compulsion as Simon also observes is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy it will in the end not produce food either.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith faith and freedom.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

After a few months in my parents' basement I took an apartment near the state university where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.