The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.