“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.”
“But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.”
“We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.”
“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”
“We owe Christ to the world—to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”