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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Art is a kind of illness.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.