Andrei Codrescu

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

— Andrei Codrescu

The Modernist’s command was Pound’s “Make it New.” The postmodern imperative is “Get it Used.” The more used the better.

— Andrei Codrescu

There is undoubtedly something religious about it: everyone believes that they are special, that they are chosen, that they have a special relation with fate. Here is the test: you turn over card after card to see in which way that is true. If you can defy the odds, you may be saved. And when you are cleaned out, the last penny gone, you are enlightened at last, free perhaps, exhilarated like an ascetic by the falling away of the material world.

— Andrei Codrescu

Only the poor can create art.

— Andrei Codrescu