I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

If it's good art, it's good.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

The secret of art is love.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.