The Best Art Is Not Intellectual

The real work of the artist is to be closer to an animal and to be more instinctual. The most interesting things are the things that we can't believe we're seeing. Gary Schandling said that the entire endeavor of creativity is to capture, create a moment that is real. We don't get there through it's being clever. It's bigger than clever. And for me, as an artist, it's always been in the tunes of comedy. That's where I experience it more with more viscerally"