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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.