All art is quite useless.

The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits.

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.

we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously