“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don t you realize that those two species are extinct now?”
“Art is the proper task of life. ”
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
“All art is quite useless.”
“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
“Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.”
“You don t take a photograph, you make it.”
“What should be boundless is one s love of life, not one s love of art or knowledge.”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
“Art is what you can get away with.”
“Imagination governs the world.”
“Creativity is an act of defiance.”
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.”