The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
Art is anything you can get away with.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it