I am not sure I like it myself. But catastrophes in life bring about catastrophes in art. (on his Ballad of Reading Gaol)
Art Quotes
Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.
I am still trying to find out what painting is, and the only way to do that is to be alone. The loneliness has to do with what you do.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.
Art, being bartender, is never drunk; And magic that believes itself, must die.
All art is quite useless.
An artist is at home everywhere.
Art is what’s left over after you’ve defined everything else.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
