Quotes about Art

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.