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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. (Coyote Peter)
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. (Coyote Peter)
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. (Coyote Peter)
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised. (Coyote Peter)
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. (Coyote Peter)
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf. (Coyote Peter)
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant. (Coyote Peter)
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. (Coyote Peter)
Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. (Coyote Peter)
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. (Coyote Peter)
Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. (Coyote Peter)
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. (Coyote Peter)
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs. (Coyote Peter)
The art of creation is older than the art of killing. (Coyote Peter)
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. (Coyote Peter)
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. (Coyote Peter)
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. (Coyote Peter)
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Coyote Peter)
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. (Coyote Peter)
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One (Coyote Peter)
No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. (Coyote Peter)
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. (Coyote Peter)
All art is quite useless. (Coyote Peter)
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. (Coyote Peter)
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. (Coyote Peter)
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