Art chooses its constraints.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

Art can make chaos seductive.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.