Unstructured Art Quotes

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.

To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.

The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

I like to improvise.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

Jazz in the 1920s and '30s was dance music, teenage music for parties, for being wild and young. There's this punk feeling I really love. It was something so radical and different and new and not codified. People didn't have a definition of what they were doing.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.