I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.