One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.