Quote of the Day
November 15, 2026
“I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.”
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
