“The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.”

“Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know…”

“Ground Control to Major Tom.
Ground Control to Major Tom.
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.”

“We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.”

“The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.”

“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”

“It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.”

“The art audience is very receptive to what I do. It's a mutual influence.”

“A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin.”

“Men fall, roughly speaking, into two flocks: Those whose intelligence is uninquiring in the face of Art, and does not demand to be appeased before their emotions can be stirred; and those who, having a speculative bent of mind, must first be satisfied by an enlightening quality in a work of Art, before that work of Art can awaken in them feeling. The audience of the realist is drawn from this latter type of man; the much larger audience of the romantic artist from the former; together with, in both cases, those fastidious few for whom all Art is style and only style, and who welcome either kind, so long as it is good enough.”