Quotes About Author

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

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I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.