Good art does not ennoble, it merely refines; and bad art does not degrade, it merely coarsens.
Jan 222015
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jan 072015
The artist-provocateur does more damage than he knows: he immunizes his audience against shock, and who cannot be shocked cannot be moved.
Jan 022015
You call a man a cynic when you can’t call him wrong, and an idealist when you don’t want to.
Dec 192014
If you wish to change a man’s beliefs, you have to give him something to replace them.
Nov 272014
Any sufficiently naive use of the word “science” is indistinguishable from the word “magic.”
Nov 062014
Beauty that does not in some way modify your standards for beauty is kitsch.
Oct 132014
Sometimes it is the work of art that looks at you and finds you wanting.
Sep 292014
Whether joy and suffering are regarded as immoral depends on which comes first.
Sep 192014
Most of the great art ever produced has been destroyed, forgotten, or unrecognized.
Sep 162014
Man oscillates continuously between wishing to remain exactly as he is and wishing to become something, anything else.