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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.

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

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 is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.