Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.