I believe in artists as persons, as individuals. But art is a mirage.
– Marcel Duchamp.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man’s reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore.
— Jean Dubuffet.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
— John Kenneth Galbraith.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe.

Not fear – Fear not good. Fear eats the soul.
—Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in Angst essen Seele auf.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
— Tadao Ando.

I work with the situation of the moment. On the spot decisions. The idea comes from the situation. This is how the film is shaped in different ways.
— Seijun Suzuki.

I never wanted to be an actor. I would prefer to be a playwright, but I don’t have the talent. So, being stage-struck, I put on the other fellow’s plays.
— David Merrick.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
- Eero Saarinen.

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won’t be able to give much information about who it is.
— Chuck Close.