“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”
“The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.”
“Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.”
“People always loved best what they identified most with.”
“Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.”