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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. (Coyote Peter)
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. (Coyote Peter)
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. (Coyote Peter)
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. (Coyote Peter)
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. (Coyote Peter)
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future. (Coyote Peter)
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. (Coyote Peter)
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure (Coyote Peter)
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. (Coyote Peter)
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. (Coyote Peter)
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. (Coyote Peter)
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. (Coyote Peter)
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. (Coyote Peter)
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? (Coyote Peter)
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. (Coyote Peter)
Any artist should be grateful for a nave grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. (Coyote Peter)
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. (Coyote Peter)
What is art but a way of seeing? (Coyote Peter)
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. (Coyote Peter)
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. (Coyote Peter)
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. (Coyote Peter)
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. (Coyote Peter)
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. (Coyote Peter)
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. (Coyote Peter)
What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? (Coyote Peter)
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