Seven aphorisms on art

picture and art aphorisms

Only an artwork that does not look like an artwork is a real artwork.

Accuracy and precision can wait

Skill alone don't make a picture. Sincerely simple things make painterly paintings.

Theory is irrelevant, art is futile

The wonderful thing about thinking visually is seeing pictures every day. Signs of art are ambiguous but for frog critics.

first helping viewer to get what they want, not the artist

Aesthetics theory itself is not the problem, it's a symptom of the problem.

Nothing is art until a cat says it

Good paintings set the cat among the pigeons.

what the artist want

We don't make ephemeral art easily but the one we do is for life.

what the artist want

Don’t fight the craziness. It’s methodologically really impressive.