But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.